Elation Professional Compu Live Laptop PC - Manual (Page 178)

Compu Live IV Advanced programming
2.2. Color Manager
The "Color Manager" tool is basically a colour editor for RGB or CMY fixtures. It allows to create
either static or dynamic colour sequences very easily. Imagine you want to load a bitmap or simply write
a text on your matrix of LEDs, "Color Manager" will help you to make it in a few seconds. To open
"Color Manager", click with the right button of your mouse on a color mixing channel in the editor
screen. Several functions are available, let us see know how to use them:
Basic tools
The basic tools are situated in the "Tools" area of the window. You can find the main functions available
in a bitmap designer and select a color for each fixture very quickly. Each fixture is represented by a
square on the left side. You can display the name of each of them by clicking on "Display fixtures'
identification". Several tools are available:
- Select pixel and Select area: the first one allows to select fixtures one by one, the second allows to
select several fixtures simultaneously
- Pen and Paint bucket: to paint one or several pixels with the selected colour
- Line, Rectangle, Circle: to draw a line, a rectangle or a circle
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